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In this memoir, iconic singer Linda Ronstadt weaves together a
captivating story of her origins in Tucson, Arizona, and her rise
to stardom in the Southern California music scene of the 1960s and
'70s.
Tracing the timeline of her remarkable life, Linda Ronstadt, whose
forty-five year career has encompassed a wide array of musical
styles, weaves together a captivating story of her origins in
Tucson, Arizona, and her rise to stardom in the Southern California
music scene of the 1960s and '70s.
Linda Ronstadt was born into a musical family, and her childhood
was filled with everything from Gilbert and Sullivan to Mexican
folk music to jazz and opera. Her artistic curiosity blossomed
early, and she and her siblings began performing their own music
for anyone who would listen. Now, in this beautifully crafted
memoir, Ronstadt tells the story of her wide-ranging and utterly
unique musical journey.
Ronstadt arrived in Los Angeles just as the folkrock movement was
beginning to bloom, setting the stage for the development of
country-rock. As part of the coterie of like-minded artists who
played at the famed Troubadour club in West Hollywood, she helped
define the musical style that dominated American music in the
1970s. One of her early backup bands went on to become the Eagles,
and Linda went on to become the most successful female artist of
the decade.
In "Simple Dreams," Ronstadt reveals the eclectic and fascinating
journey that led to her long-lasting success, including stories
behind many of her beloved songs. And she describes it all in a
voice as beautiful as the one that sang "Heart Like a
Wheel"--longing, graceful, and authentic.
A San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller! "The arid land that starts in
Arizona and stretches into Mexico's west coast is Ronstadt's
foothold in the world. It's a story she has told through music, and
now wants to tell through food."-The New York Times "The book is
many things at once. It's a portrait of a place, the Sonoran
Desert, and it's a genealogy of sorts, an archival romp through
Ronstadt's family history."-Vogue "An album of loves for the high
desert of Sonora and Ronstadt's hometown of Tucson."-NPR Rock and
Roll Hall of Famer Linda Ronstadt takes readers on a journey to the
place her soul calls home, the Sonoran Desert, in this candid new
memoir. In Feels Like Home, Grammy award-winning singer Linda
Ronstadt effortlessly evokes the magical panorama of the high
desert, a landscape etched by sunlight and carved by wind, offering
a personal tour built around meals and memories of the place where
she came of age. Growing up the granddaughter of Mexican immigrants
and a descendant of Spanish settlers near northern Sonora,
Ronstadt's intimate new memoir celebrates the marvelous flavors and
indomitable people on both sides of what was once a porous border
whose denizens were happy to exchange recipes and gather around
campfires to sing the ballads that shaped Ronstadt's musical
heritage. Following her bestselling musical memoir, Simple Dreams,
this book seamlessly braids together Ronstadt's recollections of
people and their passions in a region little understood in the rest
of the United States. This road trip through the desert, written in
collaboration with former New York Times writer Lawrence Downes and
illustrated throughout with beautiful photographs by Bill Steen,
features recipes for traditional Sonoran dishes and a bevy of
revelations for Ronstadt's admirers. If this book were a radio
signal, you might first pick it up on an Arizona highway, well
south of Phoenix, coming into the glow of Ronstadt's hometown of
Tucson. It would be playing something old and Mexican, from a time
when the border was a place not of peril but of possibility.
17 of Ronstadt's favorites, including: Adios * All My Life * Blue
Bayou * Desperado * Don't Know Much * Heart like a Wheel * It's So
Easy * Just One Look * Somewhere Out There * When Will I Be Loved *
and more. Includes bio.
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